Improvement in corn-planters



H. F. BATCHELLER.

Hand-Seeder.

Patented Oct 13, 1863.

WASHING N. PUERS PHOTO I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40233, dated October13, 1863.

' .Fo all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, H. F. BATGHELLER, of Sterling, in the county ofWhiteside and State of Illinois,have invented a new and Improved HandCorn-Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which--Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of my invention, taken inthe line a; m, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

This invention relates to a new and improved device for planting corn byhand, such as are commonly termed hand-planters.

The invention consists in an improvement on a hand corn-planter forwhich Letters Patent were granted to me bearing date March 9, 1858.

The invention refers to a strip and rod arranged or applied in themanner and for the purposes hereinafter set forth.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a quadrilateral box, which forms the hopper or seed-box ofthe device; and B is a roller, which is fitted in the lower part of thebox A, and has a recess or seed-cell, a,

made in its periphery, the capacity of which may be regulated by aslide, b.

Below the roller B there is achamber, 0, one side, 0, of which isinclined, and has an elastic metal plate, 01, attached to its lowerend,which bears against a rigid pendent plate, 0, attached to the lower endof the vertical and opposite side, f, of the chamber 0. To the lower endof the side f there is secured a lateral plate, 9, which servesas agage.The side fof the chamber O is attached at its upper end by hinges h to across-bar, i, on the box A, and the lower part of said side is securedin position or in a closed state by means of catches j.

D represents a plunger, which works between the cross-bard and across-bar, '5, at the upper part of the box A and within the side f ofthe chamber 0. The downward movement of this plunger is determined by astop, j, on the plunger, and its upward movement is determined by aleather strap, E, one end of which is attached to the plunger at is andthe opposite end to the cross-bar i.

The above-described parts are substantially the same as those describedin the specification of my patented device previously referred to.

To the inner side of the plunger D there is attached a thin strip, F, bymeans of a pin, Z, which is attached to the plunger, and is fitted in ahole in the strip F, the strip F being secured on the pin by a button,m.To this strip F, near its upper end, a strap, G, of leather or othersuitable material, is attached, and the lower end of this strap isattached to the roller B, as shown at 12. Another strap, G, is attachedto the lower part of strip F and to the roller B at n, as shown in red,Fig. 1.

His a cut-off brush, which bears against the roller B at the lower endof the box A. The roller B, it will be seen, forms the bottom of the boxA, and at the lower end of said box and at the upper end of the chamber0 there is a hopper, I, which receives the corn from the cell in theroller and conveys it to chamber O.

To the strip F there is attached a rod, J, which extends down within thebox A, and is bent horizontally at its lower end, as shown at 0. To theupper end of the plunger D there is attached, at right angles, a handle,K.

The operation is as follows: The box A is supplied with a requisitequantity of corn, and at the commencement of the operation the plunger Dis shoved down and the strap G rotates the roller B in the direction ofthe red arrow, causing the seed-cell a to be turned up within the box A,and underneath the lower bentend 0 of the rod J, which bent end, in itsdescent, causes the cell a to be filled with corn. The plunger D is thenraised, and the rollerB rotated in the opposite direction, as indicatedby the black arrow, by the strap G, so that the seed contained in thecell a will be discharged into the hopper I and conveyed from thencedown into the chamber 0, where it is retained in consequence of theelastic plate 61 bearing against the rigid plate 6. The device is thenplaced vertically over the spot where the corn is to be deposited, andthe plunger D again forced down, the roller B being turned as belore, sothat the seed-cell a will be filled and the lower end of the plungerforcing outward the plate d, and pressing the corn previously droppedinto chamber 0 into the earth. The plunger D is then raised, whichcauses a succeeding dropping of seed to be discharged into C, and thedevice is placed over the next spot where corn is to be planted and theplunger D again forced down. The rod J eifectnally insures the cell abeing filled with seed or corn at each downward movement of the plunger,and that is an important feature, as otherwise the planting might bevery irregular in consequence of many hills being missed or no cornplanted in them.

The plunger D may be removed at any time by simply detaching the strip Ffrom it, which is done by turning the button m, and in case of any dirtor obstruction getting into the chamber 0 it may be readily removed byraising the sidef. The strap E serves as a stop to determine the upwardmovement of the plunger D. It efiects this result without any jarring ofthe device or violent concussions.

I do not claim the seed-distributing roller substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. The rod J, attached to the plunger D, when used in combination withthe roller B, as and for the purpose specified.

H. F. BATGHELLER. Witnesses:

E. G. ALLEN, D. P. JONES.

